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oanjaThis was not planned at all, but somehow I ended up pre-ordering the new Panic! at the Disco CD. It would be fine if that was all I had done, but noooo~ I had to order the crazy deluxe bundle thingy. Uh oh... With shipping it was almost a 100$ I really hope it will get here in one piece, after all that money. >_> Waah~ I feel pretty horrible right now, I mean I did not have that much money to waste. Gulp...
Moving on. ^_^; I saw my thesis supervisor again today and she approved my topic and told me to go forth looking for source materials. (uh not sure that's what they are called in English but what evers) I feel pretty good about the whole thing and strangely optimistic that I will actually find enough stuff to analyse etc. I mostly need stuff like diaries or correspondences and maybe memoirs, but we'll see what I can scrounge up.
My topic is how masculinity was defined and represented in the Royal Navy during the 19th century. Like what was proper masculinity (how you needed to act/speak etc) and how it was defined at home/work/leisure in the context of the military. I'm going to look at the officers because I think it will be easier and because I personally find them more interesting. My first idea was to look at the regiments in England so I was interested in the infantry but then I thought that the Navy might be more interesting/fruitful because there is the tension between work and home, if you are away for months if not years at a time it would have given the wives a lot more leeway with managing the home etc. And then the ships as units are such closed societies by nature and almost completely homosocial so that might be a cool angle, because I want to look at male friendships as well. How the peergroup enforces certain behaviour etc. I'm not absolutely sure about this but I think boys who wanted to become officers were serving on ships from a very young age so there is also the aspect of the education of young men/boys and how they were taught to be men in this environment that didn't have women in it (as opposed to 'normal' victorian families where the mother had a very important role in the education of boys, especially their moral education.) And so on, I have a lot of ideas about what would be very interesting to look at but of course it will all depend on what kind of materials I can find.
...long ramble is incoherent and long... xD
Moving on. ^_^; I saw my thesis supervisor again today and she approved my topic and told me to go forth looking for source materials. (uh not sure that's what they are called in English but what evers) I feel pretty good about the whole thing and strangely optimistic that I will actually find enough stuff to analyse etc. I mostly need stuff like diaries or correspondences and maybe memoirs, but we'll see what I can scrounge up.
My topic is how masculinity was defined and represented in the Royal Navy during the 19th century. Like what was proper masculinity (how you needed to act/speak etc) and how it was defined at home/work/leisure in the context of the military. I'm going to look at the officers because I think it will be easier and because I personally find them more interesting. My first idea was to look at the regiments in England so I was interested in the infantry but then I thought that the Navy might be more interesting/fruitful because there is the tension between work and home, if you are away for months if not years at a time it would have given the wives a lot more leeway with managing the home etc. And then the ships as units are such closed societies by nature and almost completely homosocial so that might be a cool angle, because I want to look at male friendships as well. How the peergroup enforces certain behaviour etc. I'm not absolutely sure about this but I think boys who wanted to become officers were serving on ships from a very young age so there is also the aspect of the education of young men/boys and how they were taught to be men in this environment that didn't have women in it (as opposed to 'normal' victorian families where the mother had a very important role in the education of boys, especially their moral education.) And so on, I have a lot of ideas about what would be very interesting to look at but of course it will all depend on what kind of materials I can find.
...long ramble is incoherent and long... xD
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Date: 2011-03-11 04:46 pm (UTC)Still liking your thesis topic. :3
Olisko muuten vähän ei-kivaa olla nyt Japanissa? Onneks kai kaikki tutut on kunnossa.
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Date: 2011-03-13 08:04 am (UTC)\0/ Yay! Also me too~ Now I just need to get started with it. *nod nod*
Joo hiukka pelottavaa tosiaan... Onneks ei mitään sellasta sattunu sillo ku me oltiin siellä. Äiti ois ehkä saanu jonku hermoromahduksen tms. Mut onneks tosiaan ei kellekään tutuille oo sattunu mitään.
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Date: 2011-03-13 09:50 am (UTC)Hee your thesis topic sounds really interesting! I hope you ind lots of materials to work with :)
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Date: 2011-03-13 11:57 am (UTC)I really really hope so too... 'Cause a trip to England to visit some archives might be a bit expensive, really cool but expensive. *sheepish* So I'm hoping I'll find some stuff from Finland and then there might be things online as well.
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Date: 2011-03-13 03:17 pm (UTC)Yep, cool but expensive. Could you go and check something during your trip though? But yeah, luckily they have a lot of things on the internet nowadays.